【句子】You know, so many new companies go belly-up.  【Modern Family S3E18】

【发音】/juː/ /nəʊ/ /səʊ/ /ˈmen.i/ /njuː/ /nuː/ /ˈkʌmpəniz/ /gəʊ/ /ˈbeli ʌp/

【发音技巧】belly-up连读；

【翻译】很多新开的公司都经营不善。

【适用场合】

今天节目中，我们来学习一下go belly-up这个短语。

大家都知道belly可以指“肚皮”，up自然是可以理解成“向上”，肚皮向上第一反应应该就是鱼死了，所以没错，肯定不是什么好事儿。

This expression may refer to dead fish floating upside down near the surface of the water.

所以这个短语go belly-up就可以指：“无法正常工作、运转；出现故障；崩溃”这样的意思；

to break or malfunction; to die, fall apart, or cease to work；

如果描述的是公司，就说明“公司经营不善、资不抵债；面临破产、倒闭”；

If a company goes belly-up, it fails and does not have enough money to pay its debts.

eg: Sorry, Mark, I'd love to give you a lift to the airport, but my car has gone belly up on me again.

抱歉啊马克，我本来想送你去机场的，但是我的车又抛锚了。

eg: The disk drive in my laptop went belly-up after too many drops on the ground.

我的笔记本电脑硬盘摔了太多次，这下彻底坏了。

eg: A: "I was hoping to make a smoothie today, but it seems the blender's gone belly up. Hear that grinding sound?"

B: "Yeah, that's not encouraging."

A：“我原本希望今天能做个奶昔的，但是好像搅拌机坏掉了。听到那咯吱咯吱的声音了吗？”

B：“是啊，确实不怎么妙啊。”

eg: I wonder how many start-ups in Silicon Valley go belly up each year.

我很好奇每年硅谷有多少初创公司倒闭。

eg: This company's about to go belly-up.

这家公司快倒闭了。

eg: Factories and farms went belly-up because of the debt crisis.

由于债务危机，许多工厂和农场都倒闭了。

【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】

The merger deal between the two companies went belly up when it came to light that one of the CEOs had been dodging tax obligations for several years.